The start-up biofuel company has received at least $4.5 million in public money; the shut-down is temporary and just part how "innovation" works, insists president Chris Hooper.

Cellufuel has stopped operating its Brooklyn biofuel plant, confirms company president Chris Hooper. “We’re pausing our operations,” Hooper said in a phone interview this morning. The plant will not operate “for the rest of the year,” he said. As Linda Pannozzo reported in May: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct [Bowater Mill…